Go have a look at the new publication on American Mineralogist by Kira Musiyachenko where she demonstrates with ab-initio calculations that pure rutile inclusions in metamorphic garnets do not develop positive residual pressures upon exhumation...
Read moreQuartz metastability at high pressure: what new can we learn from polarized Raman spectroscopy
Quartz metastability at high pressure: what new can we learn from polarized Raman spectroscopy? Despite all the work we have done on it, quartz can still surprise us! In their new paper Marta, Boriana, Ross and Matteo characterize the Raman...
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Establishing a protocol for the selection of zircon inclusions in garnet for Raman thermobarometry In his latest manuscript Nicola investigate in depth the effects of zircon radiation damages onto their raman spectra and in turn how this affects...
Read moreCommensurate Growth of Magnetite Microinclusions in Olivine under Mantle Conditions
Commensurate Growth of Magnetite Microinclusions in Olivine under Mantle Conditions In this latest paper Campione Malaspina and co-workers provide evidence that points to a clear epitaxial growth of magnetite on olivine in a particular...
Read moreUpdated PVT Equation of State for Rutile
Updated PVT Equation of State for Rutile The conclusion of Zaffiro et al. (2019 Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 339–347) that the Mie–Grüneisen–Debye (MGD) Equation of State (EoS) cannot fit the available data for rutile is shown to be incorrect...
Read moreDiamond-Graphene Composite Nanostructures
Diamond-Graphene Composite Nanostructures In their latest paper Mara and co-workers describe two new families of diamond-graphene (diaphite) phases constructed from layered and bonded sp3 and sp2 nanostructural units and provide a framework for...
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Dr. Joseph Gonzalez has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Earth Sciences Post-doctoral Fellowship to support his research at the Università degli Studi di Pavia. This award made through the United States National Science...
Read moreUsing polarized Raman spectroscopy to study the stress gradient in mineral systems with anomalous birefringence
Using polarized Raman spectroscopy to study the stress gradient in mineral systems with anomalous birefringence Our PhD student Nicola Campomenosi using experimental results coupled with selected finite element models showed that the ratio...
Read moreA finite-element-based approach to determine the Eshelby and the relaxations tensors
A numerical application of the Eshelby theory for geobarometry of non-ideal host-inclusion systems In their latest paper Simone Morganti and Mattia Mazzucchelli show us how to tackle the elastic relaxation problem for non isotropic host-inclusion...
Read moreCooling history and emplacement of a pyroxenitic lava as proxy for understanding Martian lava flows
Cooling history and emplacement of a pyroxenitic lava as proxy for understanding Martian lava flows Our PhD student Mara Murri at her second Scientific Reports paper for this year! Congratulations!! She has now concluded her studies on the...
Read moreFossil subduction recorded by quartz from the coesite stability field
Fossil subduction recorded by quartz from the coesite stability field In his latest paper Matteo Alvaro introduces ad method that exploits the elastic anisotropy of quartz inclusions in garnets to reconstruct the stress state at entrapment and...
Read moreLimits to the Validity of Thermal-Pressure Equations of State
In this new manuscript Ross Angel shows that for thermal-pressure Equations of State (EoS) such as the Mie-Grüneisen-Debye (MGD) the assumptions, including the quasi-harmonic approximation (QHA) and a simplified phonon density of states need to...
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